Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 28
In the Irish version the magician is a _giant_, and the abnormal size and stature of the Green Knight is, in all probability, the survival of a primitive feature.
Who acts: magician, abnormal size · What happens: be, survive · To what, where: _ giant, Irish version, probability, primitive feature
This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, abnormal size), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 version | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 version | det |
| 3 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 version | amod |
| 4 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giant | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 magician | det |
| 6 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giant | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 giant | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 giant | amod |
| 10 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 giant | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 probability | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 probability | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 size | det |
| 15 | abnormal | abnormal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 size | amod |
| 16 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 probability | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stature | cc |
| 18 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 size | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Knight | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Knight | det |
| 21 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Knight | amod |
| 22 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stature | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 probability | cop |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 probability | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 probability | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 probability | det |
| 27 | probability | probability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giant | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 survival | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 survival | det |
| 30 | survival | survival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 probability | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 feature | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 feature | det |
| 33 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 feature | amod |
| 34 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 survival | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the magician | a _ giant | the Irish version | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | the abnormal size and stature of the Green Knight | all probability and the survival of a primitive feature | the survival of a primitive feature conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | survive | a primitive feature | nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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